I feel for you Mercy. You and others are the ones who get hurt the most. When and if this all settles down start reloading on your own. It is not difficult, it will save you money, and it will help in times like this.

I guess I'm lucky-----I have 6000 primers and 4 pounds of powder. I have way more 9,40,45 cases then I could shoot. I do buy bullits but they are lead and the local shooter supply house sells them . He has not raised his prices and has primers and powder. When I read about you guys not being able to find things, I consider myself more than lucky .

I didn't but kindda wish I had a little more before. I have 16 .22LR... not boxes, but individual shells. Today on the radio they said Homeland Security is buying up all the ammo... including .22.
But even for reloading it is costing a bunch and HARD to find anything. I now have enough of everything to last a long time but it's not against me to run out and fire off a couple hundred rounds playing. But I'm retired with sometimes too much time on my hands.
The worse part... my .223 is my coyote rifle (mini-14) and that's the hardest to find. I can do about 3000 rounds now and my friends are all giving me this "please may I" look.
But I agree... the guy just wanting to go shoot for a while is getting hurt the worse. .40 S&W was going for $850 per 1000 at the gun show. The line was 3 hours long and they ran out half way through. That is pure greed at it's highest, but supply and demand is ruling. I have to drive 180 miles round and spent about 6 hours chasing down enough components to load even. I bought molds to build bullets even and going to start raking at the range. Don't know how the working guy is gonna do it.

I am not but only because by budget won't allow it.
Cannot buy .22lr locally. I can't afford the modern guns I want.
My supply of lead for casting muzzle loading round balls is low. But, I do have a good supply of (real) black powder. Would buy more though if I could afford.

I've said it before, and we'll probably say it again and then go bash my head against a wall, but if everyone who panic bought the latest and greatest AR- or enough PMAGs to outfit a small African nation's defense force would have contributed to the SAF, ILA, NRA, GOA or whomever, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Imagine the price of one PMAG or box of UMC .223 multiplied by all the jimbobs who went and panic bought donated towards an actual fights for our rights.

If the fight for liberty ever comes down to the cartridge box, then the fight is long lost.

Donate, call, write, and call some more.

That being said, I did buy up every box of .380 I could find after Christmas, but only because my sister decided she actually "liked" to shoot her Bodyguard.

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I wouldn't call it panic ... but I've been on hold for about 20 minutes with Natchez to order some 9mm range ammo ... price isn't terrible -- $15.75 for 50 -- and I can't find ammo locally anywhere ...

And I agree with the above ... whenever I buy anything gun-related -- like today -- I send $25 to the NRA legal fund.

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Does buying a bolt action rifle with an 4 round blind magazine count? The only thing I've paid an inflated price for has been the .308 ammo to feed it. So I while I've engaged in buying, I don't think it was panic buying. Plus it had been a few months since I made a major firearms purchase, the itch was getting unbearable!

I don't think donating is panic... that's becoming a member to try and preserve your rights. Panic to me is more than you need or can afford. I do know a guy that maxed his credit cards buying what he believed may be going away... and now... he has a couple guns for sale to pay his bills. Nice part is they are being bought for what he paid, less NICS fee.
But the guy really wanting to go out and spend a few rounds for pleasure, and can't... he's the one paining for not panicing when the time was here. I was just niave and now it's costing me more to be even. But donating is an anytime choice.....

Bought lots years ago and have kept stock current and up til recently and with winter and being busy writing and calling reps, plus all the usual, work, kids, girlfriend have no need for more for awhile. Stocked up on extra magazines for all my guns a couple of years after the first AWB lapsed. So got plenty of everything for now.

Kids do like .22lr though so that will be the first thing I will need to replenish down the road. The real pain is going to be the incredibly higher replacement cost for the ammo when I need to start looking and buying - thank God I reload for all my rifles and .45acp for pistols. May be looking into 9mm reloading down the road too. Keeping an eye on reloading supplies and they are scarce and hard to find around here as well as more expensive.

But no, haven't bought anything in last 6 months. Have donated more money to NRA, ISRA, CCI, and SAF though.

Not quite, but only to buy ten boxes of .303 British, which I do every six months or so.

Only one distributor had it at the old price-this was the reason. Would not have bought it at the new prices.

It's quite a benefit having No version of any AR platform.
If I had decided to buy an AR, the time to buy extra ammo would have been both times Before the '08 and '12 elections, provided the cash were available.

Did those who panicked since mid-December Not know about the growing media focus on evil rifles or handguns after Tucson, Aurora and Portland?
What other Indications did people Need that the AR types etc were increasingly in the mass medias' spotlights?

I have not partcipated in the panic buy, although I still try to pick up a couple boxes of ammo a week to replenish and increase my supply. Luckily I bought the last 2 guns I needed before the Newtown tragedy, a Ruger 10/22 and a Glock19 for pre-panic prices.

Not really panic buying but placing orders for what I feel I need. If its available at a reasonable price now, great. Otherwise I submit a back order and will wait. Problem is I cannot place orders on primers or powder locally and I refuse to pay the hazmat unless I am left with no other option down the road. I am more concerned with some scum bag in Washington outlawing what I have and making availability a moot point. But I'll tell ya that range shooting is a thing of the past for me unless they let me blow off some Russian Wolf.
Might be time to make some Hawkeye type arrows!

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Armslist has exploded in volume over the past 4 months.
Since the gunstores and online sources are so low in inventory, there's a ton more buyers going to armslist... and a ton more sellers too because it's quite easy to move guns in all price ranges now since there aren't a whole lot of guns around anywhere else to buy.

I cleared out ALL my cheaper guns because I figure there probably won't be a better time to do so. There's also a way bigger VARIETY of guns on armslist now because a LOT of people have decided this is a great time to be selling.
Some really desireable guns are gone within a couple of hours, so if you see something you really want on there, I suggest you move fast.

Ammo too... I sold 1800 rds. of milsurp on armslist over the past two weeks at a very good price because buyers can't get much ammo of any kind anywhere else.

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